Great Britain 1841 1d red brown Plate 5, SG7.
A superb quality unused four margin block of four with original gum, lettered ‘LE-MF’, lightly mounted on the top two stamps only.
A very rare block in this exceptional level of preservation.
Accompanied with a 2001 British Philatelic Association (BPA) Certificate of Authenticity.
To prevent the cleaning and fraudulent re-use of black stamps, the colour was changed to red-brown in 1841. The penny black printing plates available at that time were used for printing the new colour. Printings in red began on 4 January 1841, a few weeks prior to the final provisional printing in black.
One of the first printings of the penny red using the penny black printing plates, exceptionally rare as a mint block of four.
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